Letters describing the character and customs of the English and French nations : With a curious essay on travellinge; and a criticism on Boileau's description of Paris. Translated from the French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muralt, Béat Louis de, 1665-1749.

Standardized Title:

Lettres sur les Anglois et les François. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life skills--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Life skills.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,[14],312,74,[8]p. )

Other Title:

Letters describing the character and customs of the English and French nations

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and sold by Tho. Edlin, at the Prince's-Arms, over-against Exeter-Exchange, in the Strand, MDCCXXVI. [1726]

Notes:

A translation of 'Lettres sur les Anglois et les François'.

'Criticism on Boileau' has parallel French and English texts.

A reissue of the first edition with a cancel titlepage and the addition of an index and 'Remarks on the letters', by Desfontaines and Pierre Brumoy, with separate titlepage and pagination.

In some copies, the cancelland titlepage survives and is bound at the beginning of the book text (p.[i-ii]), and the cancel titlepage and the index make up [16]p. following p.viii.

Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N19973.

OCLC:

508021388